wix3.6 Questions

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I have a non-standard feature in my installer, which doesn't contain any installable files, but triggers a custom action instead. As this feature doesn't contain any official file components, the i...
Caecilian asked 25/9, 2012 at 17:14

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Is it possible to somehow unpack a bundle? I need to make sure all packages within a bundle are signed correctly... TIA
Nanette asked 17/1, 2012 at 3:38

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I'm creating an installation package with WiX 3.6 primarily so I can take advantage of the Burn bootstrapping features. So far I have several MSI packages bundled together that will be installed wi...
Heribertoheringer asked 20/10, 2011 at 18:23

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I have a problem with my WiX installer in contact with deferred / immediate custom actions. Please excuse my english. I want to surrender some properties, entered by the user, to a deferred custom...
Bildungsroman asked 28/10, 2013 at 7:9

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I created a wix bundle which was working properly before codesigning. After googling and checking wix documentation, I got to know that I need to use insignia.exe for code signing the wix bundle. P...
Cyanosis asked 8/10, 2013 at 17:50

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I've a burn installation whereby the user can select which of three options to install - each one directly relates to one of three MsiPackages in a chain, such as : <Chain> <MsiPackage S...
East asked 16/10, 2012 at 14:41

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I'm trying to combine my package in a single setup EXE file and upload it to the Internet. I have created a Microsoft bootstrapper that contains Setup.exe with project MSI output, and pre-requisit...
Balcke asked 4/7, 2013 at 12:11

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I want to call a command line program of OpenOffice in WiX. To do so, I created a custom action, as seen below: <CustomAction Id="ca_RunOpenOfficeProgram" Return="check" Directory="TARGETDIR" E...
Birdlime asked 10/7, 2013 at 9:41

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Looking through the source of the Wix Standard Bootstrapper application, it appears that each package has a DisplayName property: pPackage->sczDisplayName However, the BootstrapperCore dll th...
Rachaba asked 11/10, 2012 at 18:44

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The question WiX - Install Windows Service and give permissions is exactly what I am trying to do. First I have added the UtilExtension namespace like this: <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft...
Addax asked 19/4, 2012 at 5:13

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I am stuck in doing with WIX radio group button,I want to know Whether i can able to disable text box based on selection of WIX radio group button like mentioned in the image below. And how is i...
Giliana asked 19/6, 2013 at 18:16

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I've got a Visual Studio 2010 solution which contains a VSTO Add-In project. I've also added a WiX Setup project to the solution, and I now need to add a reference to VSTO project in the Setup proj...
Occidentalize asked 12/12, 2012 at 16:35

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I want my install to fail if a third-party software element is not installed. I added a Fragment with a util:RegistrySearch and a bal:Condition to the Bundle, but I can't get it to work. ThirdParty...
Karleen asked 19/4, 2013 at 15:41

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I'm wondering, how to include a configuration-dependent project output in WiX Setup Project? For example, let's look at Visual Studio solution with one .NET application and one Wix Setup Project. ...
Oof asked 16/8, 2012 at 8:38

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I created a WIX project in Visual Studio 2010 over a year ago. It creates an MSI file and a bootstrapper setup.exe. Actually, it creates that pair of files for two languages - English and French. I...
Worn asked 28/6, 2012 at 18:16

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We just migrated our installer from WiX 2.x to WiX 3.6 and started using Burn. Previously, we were installing the Visual C++ redistributable by including the .msm files from C:\Program Files\Common...
Apiarian asked 30/9, 2011 at 15:28

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I'm aware of similar questions in WiX MSI, but I'm having issues starting an application within a bootstrapper EXE file created with Burn after the installation. My full bundle is below. If it mak...
Twocolor asked 10/10, 2012 at 16:5

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I tried to construct a working example of a WiX 3.6 installation script. We currently use WiX 3.5 and now we would like to begin installing the .NET 4 Client Profile framework as a pre-requisite fo...
Davidson asked 26/1, 2012 at 16:11

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I want to check whether the user has passed an argument for USERNAME for which the default value is local. I am trying to see if I I get a message if the value is local. The problem is in the follo...
Dorelle asked 15/3, 2013 at 9:18

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I have a bootloader that I created with WiX 3.6/Burn and was wondering if there was a command similar to <ExitCode Behavior="forceReboot"/> that would execute only on uninstall after everythi...
Clairvoyance asked 20/12, 2012 at 19:23

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Wix xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/2006/wi" xmlns:util="http://schemas.microsoft.com/wix/UtilExtension" xmlns:bal="http://schemas.microso...
Introvert asked 5/3, 2013 at 8:34

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I have a WiX bundle that installs an MSI and also checks if .NET is installed. Everything works as expected when installing the bundle (and the installer). My problem is when the bundle is upgrade...
Salleysalli asked 1/3, 2013 at 10:57

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I am migrating some things from Visual Studio 2008 to 2012. One of my projects contains a Setup Project which is no longer supported in 2012. I decided to rebuild it in WiX 3.6. I have created a Wi...
Lorielorien asked 18/1, 2013 at 22:21

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During my setup I give an option to use "windows authentication" OR "server authetication". Everything works fine and db gets installed as long as I do "server authentication" and provide db userId...
Persaud asked 23/1, 2013 at 13:26

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We're evaluating if the Wix installer will be suitable for us in a project. The end user need to be able to install our software without admin rights. The installer needs to work with at least XP/V...
Plinth asked 15/1, 2013 at 14:0

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